Description
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies,from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups,use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
The Internal Identity team builds the infrastructure that keeps access to Stripe's systems secure: strong authentication and authorization that stays out of people's way. We're building the next generation of authorization at Stripe. It reasons about how people, services, and resources relate to each other, and it enforces policy consistently everywhere.
We're looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical, not only for Stripe, but for the future of the commercial internet.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reliable, performant and scalable authorization infrastructure (e.g. libraries, frameworks, services).
- Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of our users (e.g. product teams and infrastructure teams).
- Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
- Collaborate with our users to adopt our authorization solutions to protect their resources by providing a great user experience.
- Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal and compliance to put risk of inappropriate access under control.
Who you are
- 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience in the security domain
- Strong communication and cross-functional skills; drives clear next steps when there aren’t clear lines of ownership
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones; have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
- Good product sense; able to seek out requirements from dependent teams and align them with business needs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the identity and authorization domain
- Experience with Go, Java or Ruby